All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly ...

Novelist Cormac McCarthy has spent twenty years editing what feels like the opposite of a novel: scientific papers by faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute. Some of the scientists he ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...

The future of the em dash — and the elements of style more broadly — is in our hands. Let us be a beacon for writers everywhere and keep the shift-option-hyphen in our toolboxes.

Yes, there is a real difference between a hyphen vs. dash. And here's how these tiny marks can make a big difference in your writing. When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty ...

There are multiple ways to type a Hyphen, En dash, and Em dash in Microsoft Word on a Windows 11/10 PC. In this post, we will cover the following methods in detail: Word’s built-in keyboard shortcuts ...

To insert an em dash, an en dash, or any special character in Google Docs in the Chrome desktop browser, choose Insert | Special Characters and search for the item to insert. The image shows a ...